Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros Live Coverage, Stats, and Updates - September 17, 2026 Gametracker

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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Matt Strahm	Knee	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-08-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 9
James McArthur	Elbow	05-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Jonathan India	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Jose Altuve	Oblique	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-22-2026Expected to be out until at least May 23
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-13-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 14
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	50	197	23	59	23	7	23	38	.299	.369	.482	.851	13	1	15	3	172
M. Garcia 3B	48	192	26	49	18	3	19	30	.255	.319	.380	.699	13	1	4	3	126
V. Pasquantino 1B	47	175	18	34	22	5	21	41	.194	.279	.326	.605	4	2	1	0	100
S. Perez C	48	185	18	39	21	8	9	42	.211	.259	.368	.627	5	0	0	0	99
C. Jensen C	46	141	19	33	19	6	19	49	.234	.325	.404	.729	6	0	0	0	90
J. Caglianone RF	45	146	18	37	10	5	12	48	.253	.319	.432	.751	9	1	0	1	80
I. Collins LF	43	135	16	29	15	3	20	43	.215	.329	.319	.648	5	0	3	3	79
K. Isbel CF	41	123	14	33	10	3	7	32	.268	.323	.407	.730	6	1	5	0	78
M. Massey 2B	35	92	10	20	12	3	3	20	.217	.237	.402	.639	8	0	1	0	54
L. Thomas CF	39	86	8	18	9	1	19	23	.209	.352	.267	.619	2	0	3	3	51
N. Loftin 2B	22	54	9	12	13	0	8	8	.222	.343	.333	.676	6	0	0	0	47
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	21	51	3	15	2	0	4	16	.294	.351	.353	.704	3	0	0	1	19
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert SS	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	50	1652	194	392	187	48	173	409	.237	.314	.382	.696	83	6	33	15	1050

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	10	10	4-2	0	0	63.1	2.70	45	20	19	7	20	55	.200	1.03	172
L. Erceg RP	20	0	3-1	11	14	19.1	3.26	15	9	7	0	13	17	.224	1.45	124
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
S. Lugo SP	10	10	1-4	0	0	58.2	3.68	61	25	24	2	21	51	.275	1.40	100
D. Lynch SP	20	0	1-0	1	2	21.0	1.71	12	7	4	1	7	26	.158	0.90	65
N. Cameron P	8	8	2-3	0	0	41.2	5.40	49	28	25	5	14	36	.287	1.51	60
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
S. Kolek RP	3	3	2-0	0	0	17.0	4.24	13	8	8	3	4	12	.203	1.00	51
N. Mears RP	19	0	2-2	0	2	17.2	3.06	15	6	6	1	8	14	.242	1.30	35
M. Strahm RP	17	0	1-1	0	1	16.1	3.86	14	7	7	3	7	17	.222	1.29	30
J. Schreiber RP	21	0	0-2	1	1	19.1	3.26	18	7	7	3	10	11	.257	1.45	24
A. Lange RP	20	0	0-2	0	0	23.0	5.09	20	14	13	2	13	23	.244	1.43	22
L. Avila SP	9	1	0-2	0	0	18.1	4.42	20	9	9	1	10	19	.294	1.64	15
E. Morgan RP	8	0	0-1	1	1	11.1	5.56	15	7	7	3	6	9	.313	1.85	12
M. Black P	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
E. Cerantola P	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	2
S. Cruz RP	11	0	0-2	0	1	10.1	8.71	11	11	10	5	8	14	.262	1.84	-1
M. Spence SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
B. Falter SP	4	1	0-1	0	0	7.1	9.82	15	8	8	1	6	6	.429	2.86	-9
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	50	50	20-30	14	23	443.0	4.29	404	224	211	54	209	419	.244	1.38	862

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	51	185	30	56	31	15	31	36	.303	.412	.605	1.017	11	0	1	0	192
C. Walker 1B	51	184	27	47	31	11	18	40	.255	.330	.489	.819	10	0	0	0	149
I. Paredes 3B	45	164	18	40	20	5	16	33	.244	.333	.378	.711	7	0	0	0	105
J. Altuve 2B	42	163	27	40	12	4	19	35	.245	.326	.380	.706	10	0	1	2	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Smith RF	50	160	19	33	17	4	19	52	.206	.299	.319	.618	6	0	6	1	94
C. Vazquez C	31	89	8	22	14	3	9	16	.247	.316	.393	.709	4	0	0	0	58
B. Matthews CF	41	119	13	24	13	4	9	43	.202	.256	.353	.609	4	1	2	1	58
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
B. Shewmake SS	19	55	6	16	7	3	0	11	.291	.291	.491	.782	2	0	0	0	34
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
J. Pena SS	13	54	6	14	1	0	3	9	.259	.305	.333	.638	4	0	1	0	26
J. Meyers CF	14	44	5	10	4	1	4	11	.227	.300	.341	.641	2	0	1	2	23
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
Z. Cole LF	15	43	3	8	7	3	0	18	.186	.205	.419	.624	1	0	0	0	20
N. Allen SS	22	34	7	8	0	0	3	6	.235	.297	.265	.562	1	0	0	0	16
Z. Dezenzo LF	13	35	3	8	2	1	2	12	.229	.270	.400	.670	3	0	0	0	15
S. Whitcomb 3B	14	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
D. Johnson CF	8	14	1	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	0	0	0	0	4
C. Salazar C	5	11	0	1	0	0	2	1	.091	.231	.091	.322	0	0	0	0	2
Total	51	1712	218	422	208	60	171	411	.246	.321	.404	.725	84	3	17	8	1141

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti P	6	6	5-1	0	0	36.0	1.50	22	8	6	1	21	35	.176	1.19	111
P. Lambert RP	6	6	2-4	0	0	35.1	3.57	24	14	14	2	14	35	.189	1.08	71
K. Teng SP	16	3	2-3	0	0	31.0	2.61	22	9	9	3	12	30	.198	1.10	62
M. Burrows SP	10	10	2-6	0	0	56.1	5.75	66	36	36	12	20	48	.293	1.53	58
B. King P	18	0	0-1	4	6	21.0	3.00	20	9	7	0	9	17	.250	1.38	55
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
A. Blubaugh P	20	0	2-2	0	0	29.2	4.55	22	15	15	4	20	24	.210	1.42	47
E. De Los Santos RP	18	0	0-1	3	3	18.1	4.91	20	10	10	1	4	16	.267	1.31	45
S. Okert RP	23	1	0-0	0	0	21.0	3.43	15	8	8	2	7	19	.203	1.05	42
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
B. Abreu RP	17	0	2-2	3	3	15.1	7.63	14	14	13	4	18	21	.246	2.09	34
J. Alexander RP	3	1	1-0	0	0	12.1	7.30	15	10	10	2	6	10	.294	1.70	21
T. Imai SP	5	5	1-2	0	0	17.1	8.31	17	16	16	4	14	21	.258	1.79	9
L. VanWey RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	0.50	6
J. Murray SP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
J. France SP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
N. Pearson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	3
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	2
R. Weiss SP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon P	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	51	51	20-31	11	13	446.1	5.34	434	274	265	67	249	431	.255	1.53	646

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